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CSS

Posted by Casey Runnells
Casey Runnells
Courses Plus Student 5,765 Points

ul a center alignment issue

I'm trying to figure out why my unordered list of anchors is slightly off center within the parent div. Can someone point out what I need to tweak to get the links perfectly centered?

here's the html

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<title>Indigo Beyond</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" >
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrapper">
        <p>
            <h1>(Replace with Logo)</h1>
            <h2>(Replace with Message)</h2>
        </p>
        <div class="table">
            <ul>
                 <li><a class="fa fa-facebook-square"></a></li>
                 <li><a class="fa fa-twitter-square"></a></li>
                 <li><a class="fa fa-instagram"></a></li>
                 <li><a class="fa fa-cloud"></a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
        </div>

</body>
</html>

and here's my css:

html {
    height: 100%;
}

body {
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
    -moz-background-size: cover;
    -o-background-size: cover;
    background-size: cover;
    background: #70bg32;
    background-repeat:no-repeat;
    background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #6600CC, #66FFFF) no-repeat;
    background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #6600CC, #66FFFF) no-repeat;
    background: -o-linear-gradient(top, #6600CC, #66FFFF) no-repeat;
    background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #6600CC, #66FFFF) no-repeat;
    background-size: auto;
}

.wrapper {
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    background-color: red;

    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;

    margin: auto;
}

h1, h2 {
    color: #fff;
    text-align: center;
    vertical-align: center;
}

.table {
    display: table;
    margin: 0 auto;
}

.table ul li { display: inline; }

.table ul li a {
    text-decoration: none;
    padding: .2em;
    font-size: 1.5em;
    color: rgba(250,250,250,.7);
}

1 Answer

Wolfgang Criollo
Wolfgang Criollo
1,776 Points
Wolfgang Criollo
Wolfgang Criollo
1,776 Points

don't see the html setup ... does the parent div have padding or margin or the ul ? does the element you trying to center ( ul ) have a width if you trying to center with margin:0 auto ?